# Tell me about Irish brogues (the real ones)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-irish-brogues-the-real-ones/532967>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 19, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-irish-brogues-the-real-ones/532967 "2010-03-19T01:45:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-irish-brogues-the-real-ones/532967/41 "2010-03-22T20:06:43Z")

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Yeah - the other travellers seemed a bit more comprehensible.

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**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-irish-brogues-the-real-ones/532967/42 "2010-03-22T20:37:06Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> I just watched Laurence Olivier’s _Henry V_ last night, and the actor they had playing the Irish soldier Captain MacMorris had the worst Irish accent I’ve ever heard. I don’t think the actor playing him had ever met an actual Irishman before.

Well, Captain Fluellen did say that he was incompetent. 😃

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**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-irish-brogues-the-real-ones/532967/43 "2010-03-22T21:06:11Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> I just watched Laurence Olivier’s _Henry V_ last night, and the actor they had playing the Irish soldier Captain MacMorris had the worst Irish accent I’ve ever heard. I don’t think the actor playing him had ever met an actual Irishman before.

Who, [Niall MacGinnis?](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532277/bio) Niall MacGinnis of Dublin? He must have met one or two, surely?

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